Is the New SAT Test a Hurdle for Asian Students?

Entrance to US colleges could get trickier with a redesigned SAT exam. What your child needs to know now.

Students will not sit for the US College Board’s new SAT exams until the spring of 2016. But anxiety about the revamped test has already set in.

You’re not familiar with the drama surrounding SAT tests? Clearly, you’re not a parent anxiously trying to get your child into an American university. U.S. colleges typically require students to take one of two standardized entrance exams: the SAT or the ACT. Asians who now make up a staggering 50% of all foreign students on American campuses have long favored the SAT, due to a...